Early Hackers Used Whistles from Cap'n Crunch Cereal Boxes (2018)

2 austinallegro 2 8/15/2025, 8:45:23 AM atlasobscura.com ↗

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_wire_ · 2h ago
This post, like too many posts here, is silly ephemera devoid of any context.

How about a link to a torrent of old 2600 magazines?

BTW--No one ever needs to post another link to the Mother of All Demos ever again!

If a nerd here needs a site project, why not make an AI powered XYZ of the Day that lets you choose a context, XYZ, and it aggregates lore about it and spits it up at regular intervals. Then future generations can set XYZ = history of user interfaces and be arbitrarily refreshed with Engelbart references without pretending it's news.

It's kind of sad to realize that over a year 100,000 posts will be made here and 5–10 of them will regurgitate Engelbart or Alan Kay, but none of them will introduce a new paradigm for human computer interaction.

Honestly, could the epic advance of transformer AI be any duller than its current form of reprising the chat game Adventure?

You're in a twisty maze of passages all alike. You find a slime mold. (burp) You find a blob of React code! (hic) There are 3 b's in blueberry. (barf) Here's a picture of a cat with a body that looks like a furry Taylor Swift.

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♪ You're the generation that bought more shoes and you got what you deserved... ♪

ahazred8ta · 1h ago
You are cordially invited to use your own resources to launch a better site that only displays good content from mentally healthy people who don't have attitude problems.